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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-27
THE CHLOROFORM MYTH.

An Old Detective Explodes the Familiar
Belief in the Use OF Chloroform by
Burglars.
An old detective, in the employ of Inspec-
tor Byrnes, was telling Mail and Cypress
reporter blood-curdling tale of midnight
robbery.
why didn't the burglar chloroform the
man the moment he got into the roomHl in
quired the reporter. You say he was
there half an hour before the man woke
no and captured him"
Don't tell YOU that the man was over
6 feet tall and as strong as bull, while the
burglar was only boy Is years DID,"
Eyes, but what of that!"
Did you ever see man chloroformedF
mo"
"Wlll you go into doctors Office some
time and see how it is dones Unless man
is held down by force or submits himself
willingly to the operation it is impossible to
chloroform him."
YES but this man was sound asleep
"What of thats Do you know how long
it takes to put a man under the influence of
chloroformm
"a minute or so, l suppose"
1.-TWO or three minutes rather and the
first application of the drug is certain to
waken any living man who is not under the
influence of some powerful narcotic Be-
fore he had taken two whiffS of the
anesthetic he would have been wide awake,
and the robber would have been captured
half an hour earlier than he was"
But they do chloroform people some
times, don't they!" asked the reporter
If you refer to doctors, l would say yes,
but if you mean burglars wo id say no l
don't know a single instance, though the
public and the press believe there are many
every month. 1 think l can prove it to
you. Every case where man is choloro-
formed, according to his own account of his
adventure he has recovered. How often do
you hear of men dying under the influence
of chloroform when it is carefully admins
tered by skilled physician! Very often in
deed The chloroform must be properly
mixed with fresh air, and even then the ex-
pertinent is often fatal. Now, do you think
that an ignorant burglar could always avoid
killing his victim? Neither do l nor any
one else who has given the subject close
study.
No, sir" added the detective in conclu-
sion, II tell you, chloroforming persons by
thieves is myth and fraud. It is a story
originated by the victims to add a more
startling flavor to their yarns and to ac-
count more clearly for their weak submis-
sion, which / have found is caused more by
fear than chloroform."
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-27
CUTICURA REMEDIES.
SKIN, SCALP,
BLOOD.

HAVING been sufferer for two years and a
IL half from a disease caused by bruiSe on
the leg and having been'cured by the CuTICURA
REMEDIES when al other methods and remedies
| visited Hot Springs to no avail. and uled
several doctors without success and at last our
principal druggist, Mr.. John T. Finlay Ito whom
! shall ever feel grateful. spoke to me about
with the result that am perfectly cured. There
is now no sore about me. think can show
the argest surface where my sutferngs spranS
from of anyone in the state, The CuTIcuRA
REMEDIES are the best blood and skin cures
manufactured. refer to Druggist John =, FIN
lay and DR.. d. c. Mont emery, both of this
place, and to DIR. Smith. of Lake Lee Miss
ALEXANDER BEACH, Greenville, Hiss.
Mr.. Beach used the CUTIcURA REMEDIES, at
our request, with results as above stated.
A. b. FINLAY & CO., Druggists.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-27
Manner in OratorY.

FFOHt Ltc lOttUto OOHDuittOts
Every school boy can recall Demosthenes'
action-action action theory of oratory. Ac-
cording TO it the orators ideas and vocabu-
larry are insufficient unless backed by the
physical aids of voice, manner, figure and
gesture. There are four modern orators,
whose reputation. as handed down by ira
dition, Justify the theory. They are
Patrick Henry, Mirabeau Chatham and
Whitfield.
Neither the reported speeches of the
statesmen nor tie published sermons of the
clergyman account for the oratorical effects
they produced. Much must be allowed to
the great occasions, when men as infiam-
mable as finder were kindled by fiery
words. But even this fact is not sufficient
TO explain the traditional reputation of these
orators. They must have spoken with
voices that expressed shades of passion,
with looks that accumulated, and with ges-
lures that emphasized their breathing
thoughts.
Danton looked to audacity for success.
These four men were as audacious in their
differences as human boldness would permit.
Henrys famous reply to the interrupting
speaker IF this be treason, make the most
of it., is paralleled by Chatham's, II hope
some dreadful calamity will befall the
country that will open the eyes of the
King"
"Orderl orderln shouted the House.
What have spoken" continued the
audacious orator, II have spoken condi-
tionally, but now retract the condition. |
speak it absolutely, and | hope that some
signal calamity will befall the country"
II know there is but one step from the
capitol to the Tarpeian Rock" Numbered
Mlrabeau, when denounced in the Assem-
bly, for his friendship to the royal family.
A greater orator than either of these
four. if we take into account the matter and
style of his speeches was Edmund Burke
Fancy, imagery, beauty Of diction, wide
views, deep thoughts and continuous
stream of argument are to be found in his
great speeches. Yet many of them failed
of effect when delivered, because the speaker
did not utter them with the voice, manner,
figure or gesture of an orator.
When Burke threw dagger on the floor
OF the House, exclaiming These are the
presents which France designs for you !" the
members laughed, and Sheridan said, 1.-THE
gentleman has brought us the knife, but
where is the fork ~
But when Chatham waved his crutch, it
became an instrument of oratory, and the
House was as silent as if awed by the wand
VI mighty magician.
These facts suggest the Importance Of adj
iress 1t is not enough that speaker have
o,nething to say, and can say it in fitting
words. He must speak il SO that the hearers
hSll feel it, To do this he must be aided by
Dice, manner. attitude and gesture.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-27
RECALLED BY THE RAWSON
SHOOTING.
A Tragedy Under the Shadow of
Chicago Church Wall.



Chicago Church Wall.
From, the Chicago Mail.
The shooting of Banker Rawson in front
of the Third Presbyterian Church, by his
step-son, on Sunday, recalls tragedy that
was enacted some twelve years ago, one
night, under the shadow of st. Peters
Church wall, on the corner of Polk and
Clark streets. There is no similarity in the
tragedies, except that both occurred almost
in the doorways Of churches.
Crouching under the wall of ST. Peters,
on the night referred to, was young girl
That section of the city was at that time,
and is yet, accustomed to such sights, and
the patrolman thought nothing OF this one
A young man turned the corner ON Clark,
going west on Polk street, when he was ac-
costed by the girl
A good deal quicker than it takes, to tell
this he was upon the ground calling for
help, and the girl fiourished knife in the
sickly glare of the lamp light on the corner
shrieked, and started for the river She
was overtaken and walked to the Harrison
street station, for there were no patrol wag-
ons in those days. When she appeared be-
fore the officers of the station it was noticed
that she was girl of a singular order of
beauty, and that her attire was rich and Of
fashion which she did not get from any
American plate. She refused to give her
name at the time and refused to talk. A
reporter told her she had killed her man.
Closing her eyes moment, she slowly and
gracefully dropped upon her knees, and
the strangest and most pathetic prayer
came from her lips for forgiveness. Then
she pleaded for mercy for her Billy" and
then, the feeling which prompted the act
coming upon her again, she arose and
gloated over her act with frenzy that
Bernhardt would have liked for a copy.
The boy recoverable was one of the class
of that part of the town, and his name is of
no consequence now. He was infatuated
with another girl and this had caused the
maddened beauty to watch for him.
There was no prosecution. But some
years later, when she was in tatters and
ugly and disSipated, she was arrested on
suspicion of having some knowledge of the
murder of Old Man Wilkie, on West Lake
street, but nothing came of it. That muir
der is still a mystery.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-27
A GREASY MANDARIN.
Very Bad Manners of a Ch:naman of
Rank-GaudY Mobiles of Korea.

~AdNANAf 4NObASS VI AOA co.,
From the ST Louis Globe Democrat
The limo between mandarin and cody is
sometimes very marked and sometimes very
slight in China. In his own yaamen a man
DARN has minions about hlm by the score
and he has despotic authority over them,
and can decapitate them, beat and torture
them at his will almost. Yet he suffers ia
mlliaritieS from his servants and hobnobs
with them on an apparent equality that IS
amazing. a captain of a Chinese man-of-
war when travelling on merchant steamer
quite as likely travels steerage and chop
sticks his food out of the common pans sent
down for the general mess. He puts on no
airs and seems to get on with his cody
comrades admirably. When we were leav-
ing Korea the brother of the Chinese Minis
ter at Seoul was a passenger by the same
steamer. He Travelled in the first cabin, but
he was as dirty as any cody in the Storage,
and his silk and satin brocade coat were
filthy beyond belief. He was a stunted
little Chinaman, with snaky black eyes and
a greasy, yellow face, and he had disagree
able ways of dropping his shoes and sitting
feet and all in the wicker deck-chairs which
marked those chairs as something to
be avoided by the white passengers after
ward. When tucked comfortably in a
dirty little bunch or loling at ease
he used to slip off his jade bracelet and
sit and meditatively polish it against
the side of his nose for an hour He had a
string of servants with him, that were trav-
cling Storage, and they were always
swarIning on the after deck and emulating
their master in making themselves at home
in the foreign chairs. As the servants could
not be any dirtier than the master, and one
looked as much like mandarin as another.
it was a difficult matter for the officers to
tell which ones they should drive off to the
Storage deck. As an offset to this eminent
Chinaman there were two Koreans of rank,
each with his servant, and Korean masters
and servants seemed to be on the same free
and easy terms of equality as the Cinnamon.
The Koreans wore clean clothes, let it be
said, although nothing could be more I'M
suited to travel or out of place on shipboard
than their baggy trousers and tiuttering
gowns of white silk or linen. The Koreans
seemed to have ineXhaustible wardrobeS,
and the greasy Chinese mandarin would
quit rubbing his bracelet on his nose to stare
at the Koreans as they changed their blue
silk overgowns to amethyst gauze ones or
pea-green silk ones, or took them all off
down to the one short, gauZy coat that COW
cred the reed framework that they wore
next their skins. The Koreans evidently
had an eye for color, for when they had half
the rainbow on them in the way of coats
they would flourish bright yellow silk hand
kerchiefs OF red-bound books.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-27
soura ga rALs1FIERs.
Tho People If amoa Have au Abhor-
renee of Truth ana Honesty.
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renee of Truth ana Honesty.
From the San Ffaucisco Chronicle.
To this day Samoan men and women
with Few exceptions, wear the garments Of
their savage days-a cloth, generally of the
native make, known as the kappa, wound
round the body above Che hips and falling
about fifteen inches They tattoo their legs
and sometimes other parts Of the body with
some substance giving a Sxv-bMe color
Their modern houses are built ON the i'm
memorial model of which every one who has
read a book about the South sea has seen a
picture. Quite large number of them add
TO their primitive style Of dress an umbrella.
Rain is very frequent in Samoa, but the
chief use of the umbrella is as a shade from
the sun. Lying so near the equator and
surrounded by sea water, which always
keeps temperature on the surface of about
So lFahrenheitl, the average heat is very
high, though by no means equal to that eX-
perienced in tropical Africa or other CONT
mental regions in similar attitudes 1t must
be confessed that the costumes and habita-
tions are very suitable to the climate, and
that it would be an act of cruelty to impose
on the Samoans any other style of life
The civilization they chiefly need is the
enforcement upon them of respect for the
precepts of the decalogue. For lying and
for pctty UnleVl1S Uney nave rev equals III
Christendom or i'll heathendom. When
family prayers are over at night their one
idea is, if the moon be not too bright to
secure the household provisions for the next
day from the bread-fruit and banana trees
of some one else's land The white man is
their favorite victim From him they will
with the utmost good humor, steal anything
they can lay their hands on, even if it be
not of the slightest use to them. In every
store-even in the smallest shop-will be
found most careful system of barricadeS
interpoSed between the native customer and
the goods, while the watchful eye of the store
keeper is ever upon them so long as they
haunt his premises. They scarcely ever
come singly to buy anything. Having no
settled occupation at any time, half dozen
of a family or a village will accompany 60
the store the fortunate one who has a dol
lar to buy something with. Hence the
necessity for barricades and vigilance. AS
for the habit of lying, it may be said that a
Samoan so seldom speaks the truth when
he thinks any object is to be gained by not
doing so) that he is never believed ON his
own word. These two accomplishments of
living and stealing are taught to children by
their mothers, who always find it necessary
to have testimony at hand to deceive their
husbands.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-27
Marie Louise's opinion of Napoleon.

j. II. Hdger in the october Cosmopolitan.
When the divorce between Napoleon and
Josephine had been announced, reports
were put in circulation that Marie Louise
was to be the new Empress of France. Re-
ferrlng to these rumors she writes, under
the date of Jan. 10, 1910: II don't believe a
word of what they say. Napoleon would
not risk a refusal and there is too much
harm that he can yet do us. And
papa is too good to wish to force
me in so grave matter. let
them talk, but pity the poor Princess that
he will choose. However, I'm very sure
that | am not the victim predestined by
politics. And a few days later "Since
Napoleon's divorce | expect to fiud the
name of the woman he has chosen i'll every
number of the Frankfort Journal | con
TESS that this delay makes me anxious in
spite of myself | have, however, placed
my fate in the hands of providence, which
alone knows what will conduce to cur hap
piness: but if iil-luck will have it, | am
ready to sacrifice my happiness for the good
of he State One only finds true happiness
in duty done, even at the price Of ones
peace of mind"
Again, on Jan. %, she writes as follows:
II know that they already have me mar
ried, in Vienna, to the great Napoleon, but |
hope the rumor is unfOunded. However, |
am none UIl6 less llduklul lOI JOul hllu
wishes: if, in spite of all, the thing comes
to pass, shall be the only one not to rejoice
at it." In a letter bearing the same date
addressed to her friend. Mile de Poutet, she
adds that she amuses herself by composing
waltzes, singular mode of preparing for
an heroic actl
A hiatus of three months now occurs in
the correspondence In the meantime
Marie Louise, having been married to the
modern Antichrist, and finding him not so
detestable as he was painted, has become
reconciled to her lot. The next letter is
dated, "Compiegne, "a April, 1910.
wish, my dear Victoria" she again writes
to Mile: de Poutet, who had herself just
been married, "that you may be as happy
as am, and that you may find in life en-
joyment equal to mine" She also praised
Napoleons easy disposition, his willingness
to oblige, and his graciousness, and de-
clared that her happiest moments were
those that she passed alone with him.
After the birth of her son, the King of
Rome she prays Heaven that the child may,
like its father, MAKE all those happy that
shall be brought in contact with and known
him. She has but one cause Of unhapplness
her husbands absence, Il can only be
happy near him. May God ever preserve
YOU from such a separation; it is too much
for q loving heart, and should it continue
longer. | feel that shall succumb." LIN bid
ding him goodbye, she was convulsed by
"a more violent emotion than she had ever
experienced in leaving her family" If a
day passed without receiving letters, she
was at once thrown into the deepest despair,
and when one came it only comforted her
for few hours.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-27
BLOWING UP CAMELS.
Remarkable Deception Practiced by
Inscriptions Arabs,


From, the Youths Companion,
Moorish traders in camels seem to be no
more honest than Yankee traders in horses
have the reputation of being. The author
of among the Arabs describes one Of
their tricks, which, according to his ac-
count, only an expert is likely to detect.
Such an ingenious method of raising the
wind might put even the shrewdest Amerl-
can to the blush. The story was told to the
author by "a Frenchman, who had Travelled
for some time in Algiers.
On one occasion, while in an Arab village,
he declared his intention of buying young
camel No sooner had his desire become
known than at least twenty camels were
brought for his inspection.
They were all tine-looking animals, in eX-
celent condition. apparently. In fact, the
only fault our Fenchman could perceive
was that they were too fat. After a proper
amount of elaboration and bargaining, he
selected the one which appeared to be the
leanest, and paid the price agreed upon.
The next morning, when he went to look
at his fat camel, he found living skeleton,
on whose almost teshlesS bones the skin
hung in large folds and whose best develop
ment was about the joints.
The method by which the camels are sud
denly "fattenedn for the market is thus de-
scribed
An incision about an inch in length is
made in each ear between the skin and the
flesh. Into this small tube is fitted and
secured by a silk cord. There it re-
mains, hidden from the observation of all
but the initiated and ready for use at any
moment.
When a merchant who is not acquainted
with the blowing-up trick comes to buy a
camel the dealer takes two tubes, each yard
long, and, inserting one end of each III the
small tubes just described, through the other
ends two Arabs blow with all their might,
until the animal has attained the requisite
degree of plumpness The initiating tubes
are then withdrawn and the air prevented
from escaping by means of cork smeared
with pitch.
The poor camel now becomes, apparently
quite lively and frisky, trying to throw it
self on the ground, or to press against the
wall or a tree. or whatever other object
may be at hand. so as to get rid of the wind.
1t is generally too we'll watched by the ras-
cally Arab to succeed III accomplishing its
purpose.
Sometimes however, it manages to elude
his vigilance and then, if the cork is not
very securely fastened, the wind escapes
with a whistle like that OF a steam engine,
and the fine-looking beast suddenly collapses
into the miserable object it really is
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-27
Excursions in Paris Sewers.
From the CAicaao News.


Excursions through the gorgeous sewers
of Paris-strange as this conjunction of
noun and adjective must sound--are now
all the rage i'll the fashionable world of the
city. A few evenings since | was invited to
accompany a select party We started from
the Palace Chateet at 3 o'clock, and de-
scended a little winding staircase, the steps
and walls of which were covered with q
green cloth, fringed by q red border. There
was not the slightest danger of soiling our
clothes or OF encounJering the least disa-
greeable odor. On arriving at the foot of
the stairs a fine display OF fruits and vege-
tables was the first thing to greet our eyes
These products were from Gennevilliers,
and were grown in gardens watered by the
sewers. We got into a wagon, in which
were seats for twenty persons Off we
went, showed along by solid-looking fellows,
all neatly dressed. Above us was mass of
tubes and pipes They are the water pipes,
the two largest containing our drinking
water from the Vanne, and water from the
Ourcq, which latter is used for washing the
streets and sidewalks. Then there were the
pneumatic tubes in~which we could hear the
rattle of the dispatch boxes. Suddenly we
heard the passengers in the wagon ahead of
us uttering cries of admiration.
We were under the Rue de Rivoli, but
soon we reached the crossing of the Pont-
Neuf This tunnel was lighted from end to
end with garlands Of colored lamps. The
effect was fairy-like The same effect was
produced under the Rue de Louvre, the Rue
de Richelieu, and the Place DIES Pyramides
where precisely under the statue of Joan of
Arc appeared in luminous glass the arms of
the city of Paris. We passed along, still
following the Rue de Rivoli, where each
house has its number in the sewer, just as
in the street, until we reached the Place de
la Concorde.
There the electric lights, crossing their
fires with the reflection Of the Venetian
lamps, turned the square into sort of ball
room. Nothing was wanting, not even
music. We all got out of the wagons to
embark in boats furnished with cushioned
seats. The music was in the first boat,
which was decorated with flags and lamps.
The boats were started. We followed the
entire route of the Rue Royale by the light
of fifty dazzling electric lamps. After Il
quarter of an hour in this boat we landed
at the foot of a staircase, which we mounted,
and in three minutes we wero above the
ground at the Madeleine. 1t was much
warmer in the streets than it was in the
sewers, where the temperature, summer and
winter, is always uniformly pleasant